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But it scales. If he keeps at it (while keeping the quality - I watch most videos), it's likely that each year will bring as much revenue as all previous years
by comboy 4y ago
But it scales. If he keeps at it (while keeping the quality - I watch most videos), it's likely that each year will bring as much revenue as all previous years combined. It may saturate at few millions subs but at that point it's not a bad profit and revenue from potential partnerships increases.
I'm not saying it's an easy money, but it could be much more rewarding than working for big tech. Of course having a yt cahnnel is still kind of working for big tech, but he seems to be smart about it, heavily promoting newsletter, presumably to be able to switch platform if necessary.
- fullshark 4y agoIt also could go to nothing any year, as audiences move on or a youtube algorithm change murders his watchtime (Patreon a little less risky here but it could shrink as watchtime/new audience shrinks).
- TheRealPomax 4y agoThe thing to remember is that it's a two-way door: current audiences move on, but we keep making more humans, and they keep "discovering" what youtube recommends to them, so realistically the threat is "leveling out" rather than "losing viewers" if you run a quality channel that isn't built on slagging others off. Plus, we're already seeing alternatives (or rather, in-parallels) becoming quite established, most notably Floatplane and Nebula as created-by-youtuber(s)-who-wanted-an-off-platform-alternative.
- MrDunham 4y agoThis is an important point… I purchased a website about 3D printing at the beginning of this year and have been steadily improving the content quality and posts… Only for a recent Google update to obliterate 90% of my traffic overnight. Two months later it’s starting to recover but that’s not the bedrock of a business you’d like to build upon.